Auction 96
FINE JUDAICA: PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, RABBINIC LETTERS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART
By Kestenbaum & Company
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Feb 9, 2022
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LOT 48:
KANNER, AVROHOM ABBISH
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Sold for: $100
Start price:
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Estimated price :
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Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On lot's price, no sales tax on commission
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KANNER, AVROHOM ABBISH
(Admor of Tshechov-Haifa, 1894-1984). Autograph Letter Signed (aerogramme), written in Hebrew to the Agudath HaRabonim of America and Canada.
Concerning the Kashruth of various Passover products.
One page.
Haifa: 1st Adar 1956
R. Avraham Abbish Kaner served as the second Grand-Rebbe of Czchow. He initially established his court in Jassy, Romania, and after surviving the Iasi pogrom of June, 1941 (which saw the massacre of a third of the city’s 40,000 Jews he found passage to Palestine. Detained aboard the ship Medinath HaYehudim, the British offered R. Kaner the option to reach the Holy Land unmolested, while all other voyagers would be sent to detention in Cyprus. The Rebbe declined the offer, refusing to abandon his fellow Jews. later, upon reaching Eretz Israel, the Rebbe settled in Haifa, where he led his Chechoyv court for the next four decades.
